Fiona Hill

But the whole kind of point there is also from the anti-ballistic missile warning defenses.

The United States also needs the UK and Norway there.

The UK is actually a massive communications hub and has kind of major radar installations that the United States and the UK operate together, and so does Norway.

So you kind of alienate everybody else.

Trump always says the US does 100% of NATO or 80% of NATO, 70% of NATO.

But there's pretty critical parts of the contributions of other NATO members that are really going to cause problems for the United States if they were not there.

And I mean, that's kind of part of the problem there.

The whole security of Greenland, you know, has been in a pretty fine balance with all of these other players.

And, you know, you've got Iceland, the United Kingdom, Norway, and other, you know, Nordic and Scandinavian countries.

Now you're just pretty much alienating them all.

Well, there will be consequences.

I mean, I think, you know, what people have been trying to do is find him an off ramp.

you know, the whole time to, you know, back off from this.

Because this was about, and still is about, and it could come back again, Trump alone.

I mean, he wants Greenland because it's so big.

You know, we all talk about the Mercator, Mercator projections.

And, you know, with Greenland, I mean, I think, you know, Trump's thinking is that the United States is the biggest country in the world.

Well, you know, if you add in Canada and the United States and Greenland, absolutely, you know, bigger than Russia, et cetera, et cetera.

But he's thinking all the time about size.

I mean, these ridiculous, you know, pictures of him with Vance and Rubio standing behind him planting a flag on Greenland, members of Congress and, you know, videos apparently cutting up cakes with Greenland on.